Name Robert Schapire | Doctoral advisor Ronald Rivest | |
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Institutions Microsoft ResearchAT&T LabsPrinceton University Alma mater Brown UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis The design and analysis of efficient learning algorithms (1991) Books Boosting, Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms Awards Best 10-year Paper Award of the ICML Similar People Yoav Freund, Ronald Rivest, Leonard Adleman, Adi Shamir | ||
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Robert Elias Schapire was the David M. Siegel '83 Professor in the computer science department at Princeton University and recently moved to Microsoft Research. His primary specialty is theoretical and applied machine learning.
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His work led to the development of the boosting ensemble algorithm used in machine learning. Together with Yoav Freund, he invented the AdaBoost algorithm in 1996. They both received the Gödel prize in 2003 for this work.
In 2014, Schapire was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to machine learning through the invention and development of boosting algorithms. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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